United Nations
March 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The incredible shrinking United Nations was once considered an important player in international relations. It peaked, I suppose, during the Korean War, but continued to be treated as a significant institution for quite a few years thereafter. No longer. War has been raging in Ukraine for four years, and Iran has been under bombardment for nearly a month. At no time has anyone expected the U.N. to be relevant to
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November 18, 2025 — John Hinderaker
If Donald Trump were still a Democrat, this would be hailed in the press as another in a series of foreign policy triumphs, and would guarantee him a Nobel Prize: In Major Breakthrough, U.N. Security Council Adopts U.S. Peace Plan for Gaza. The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, a breakthrough that provides a legal U.N. mandate for the administration’s vision of how
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September 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump’s visit to the United Nations yesterday was greeted with the institutional equivalent of a wardrobe malfunction. First the up escalator stopped at the precise moment Mrs. Trump, President Trump, and an accompanying Secret Service agent stepped on to it. Then the teleprompter stopped rolling for his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. The escalator incident is not funny. Susan Crabtree suggests the security risks it posed to
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September 23, 2025 — Bill Glahn
“This is indeed a Golden Age of America,” President Trump told the U.N. General Assembly in a speech today in New York. The full speech can be seen here on C-Span. The President started reading his speech from the binder at the lectern as the U.N. had cut off the teleprompter. Just earlier, the U.N. had shut down the escalator as he was riding on it. Such is the childishness
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July 21, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Governments around the world are not responding to climate change hysteria as activists have hoped they would. It is one thing to make commitments at international conferences, something else to impoverish your voters when pretty much everyone understands that, with China and India not on board, no one else’s actions matter, even if you buy the hype. What to do? Use the force of law to compel undemocratic obedience: The
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April 25, 2025 — Scott Johnson
It would be easy to miss today’s good news, which comes via the Trump Department of Justice. The headline of the Jewish Chronicle spells it out: “US scraps Unrwa’s legal immunity in major reversal of Biden-era policy.” Subhead: “The decision could see the UN agency, which has been accused of employing Hamas operatives, hit with significant claims from the relatives of terror victims.” Huge breaking: In a major reversal of
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January 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Citizen Trump testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee at a hearing held on July 21, 2005. The subject of the hearing was the United Nations’ capital master plan to renovate the UN headquarters in New York. The committee’s interest in Trump’s testimony appears to have been triggered by Meghan Clyne’s New York Sun story “Trump Scoffs at U.N.’s Plan For New H.Q.” (February 4, 2005). See Senator Inhofe’s testimony
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November 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. For “balance,” the ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif. The ICC says the Israeli leaders are guilty of “crimes against humanity” in connection with the war started by Gaza. The ICC is a bad joke, but sadly, there are countries that take it seriously:
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October 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is said to be footage of Sinwar, just before his death, filmed by an Israeli drone. I am not sure exactly what is going on here; Sinwar appears to be wounded, perhaps missing his right hand. He feebly tries to fend off the drone with a stick. I take it that he was killed immediately or shortly afterward, but I am not sure how: Yahya Sinwar last moments, with
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October 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Andrew McCarthy updates events in Israel’s current multifront war in the NRO/Corner post “Hezbollah Attack Kills Four Israeli Soldiers as U.S. Deploys Troops to Operate Missile Defense System.” Unless you follow events with the help of Elon Musk’s X, you may not know that the United Nations forces pose something like an eighth front as they work in apparent collaboration with Hezbollah south of the Litani River: [I]t has long
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September 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In my head I can hear some keffiyeh-clad folk singer warbling an adaptation of the folk song about union activist Joe Hill: “I dreamed I saw Fateh Sherif last night, alive as you and me…” That would be after the IDF blasted him in an airstrike in one of those eternal refugee camps in Tyre, Lebanon. Sherif was head of the UNRWA teachers’ union in Lebanon with a second gig
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September 25, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
In his first speech at the United Nations, Argentine president Javier Milei said: Now, at some point, as is often the case with most bureaucratic structures that we men create, this organization stopped upholding the principles outlined in its founding declaration and began to mutate. An organization that had been essentially intended as a shield to protect the realm of men, was transformed into a multi-tentacled leviathan that purports to decide not only what
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September 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In the tweet below, Aviva Klompas provides a good summary of the apparent facts underlying Israel’s astounding Operation Grim Beeper, as Michael Doran calls it. Doran himself comments in the thread “A few thoughts on Operation Grim Beeper.” As I get it, Israel seems to have manufactured and sold the beepers to Hezbollah through a Hungarian front. Perhaps the terrorists were attracted by the volume discount. On October 8 Hezbollah
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June 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Biden administration spent more than $300 million to construct a pier on the Gaza shore, intended to facilitate provision of supplies to Hamas. Which is itself, of course, a terrible idea. But things have not gone well: NEW Lifespan of Biden’s $320 million pier: May 17: Biden’s pier opens May 21: “No aid from pier has been delivered to broader population” May 28: Pier ops suspended after piece breaks
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June 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
One might detect an ambivalence about Israel’s defense of itself in Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s reticence to comment about Operation Arnon. That would be a mistake. There is no ambivalence Sullivan’s reticence masks Biden’s promotion of Israel’s capitulation to Hamas. NSA Jake Sullivan refused to tell CNN if he feels comfortable with Israel's rescue mission.The answer is, he feels uncomfortable. Every Israeli success reduces the chance we'll surrender
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March 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
We’ve traced the drift of President Biden and his team away from Israel toward the side of Hamas in the current war. You might say they’re selling Israel out, but it’s not clear what they’re getting in return. You might say they don’t know what they’re doing, but one fears that they do. They seek the survival of Hamas as Israel seeks to complete its campaign to eliminate it as
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March 23, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Employees of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, participated in the October 7 attack on Israel, raping, torturing and murdering Jews in tandem with Hamas jihadists and taking Israelis and Americans hostage. Such deadly collaboration should come as no surprise. As Paul Johnson showed in his masterful Modern Times, the United Nations has always been hostile to the West in general and the USA and Israel in particular. “The
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